Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...troopers Scott Phillips and Les Lord, stole Phillips' police cruiser, then drove to the newspaper building at 1 Bridge Street, where he shot and killed Vickie Bunnell, an attorney and part-time judge whose office was in the building, and Joos, the co-editor of the paper. Before the terror ended with the death of Drega four hours later, he had burned down his home in Columbia, N.H.--on property later found to contain a bomb factory--and wounded four other police officers...
...popular films of Alfred Hitchcock show that the American people love terror, horror and pain. The Andrew Cunanan-Gianni Versace murder case seems to have that ring to it [NATION, Aug. 4]. No one would have thought that this murderer would put the nation in such a frantic state. With Cunanan's desperate suicide, the worst of this nightmare is over, but we will probably never know what caused him to commit five murders across the country. MARGARET JONES Prescott...
...past, "Arafat's efforts to keep the fundamentalists on board have led them to stop launching terror attacks on Israel," says TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief Lisa Beyer. "He thinks it can happen again, which would take lots of pressure...
...Washington, President Clinton was equally tough on the Palestinians. "There is no excuse and there must be no tolerance for this kind of inhumanity," he said, demanding "concrete steps" by the Palestinians to fight terror. But fearful that violence could beget more violence, Administration officials began to think something bolder was required. The President postponed for only a week a planned mission by Middle East mediator Dennis Ross--his first since last April--to regenerate confidence, and huddled with his security advisers to consider what else Washington could do to repair the diplomatic damage. "It's pretty clear," said...
Taking on terror suspects directly, the Israeli government issued an arrest warrant for Palestinian police chief Ghazi Jabali, whom the Israelis accuse of inciting an attack on a Jewish settlement in the West Bank last month. Most ominously, Netanyahu's government warned that if Arafat didn't neutralize activists, Israel would send its forces back into areas now under Palestinian self-rule to do the job. That would be a blatant violation of the Israeli-Palestinian accords. "You're not going to see tanks or columns of soldiers going inside," says a senior Israeli officer in the West Bank...